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Description: | An almost complete post-medieval to early modern copper-alloy rowel spur, broken and bent out of shape. One arm is complete whilst the other is broken and the neck and rowel-box survive. The rowel box is waisted and has a thin rectangular recess, approximately 14 mm long, within which the rowel (now missing) would have rotated. The rowel was held in place by a circular sectioned separate bar which passed through holes at the end of the rowel box. The complete arm terminates in an elongated S-shape/figure-of-eight forming two loops with a complete rivet rivet in the loop adjacent to the terminal. The rivet measures approximately 4 mm in diameter on the underside and has a wide flat head (approximately 9 mm in diameter) which projects from a neck which measures approximately 5 mm long. On the opposite arm the end loop is missing but the remaining loop also has a similar rivet attached. The spur is likely to be 17th to 18th century in date. It measures 95.85 mm in length, 49.31 mm wide at its widest, 6 mm thick and weighs 39.7 grams. It has a predominantly dark brown patina.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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